Re: VSTa won't boot past the 'Launch at 0x1020' line

[gary_shea@novell.com writes:]

> Ahhhhh.... VSTa assumes I have a slightly smarter display, eh?
>Well, I can either buy a new card or try to write a server that works with dod
>o-mono.

No, we support mono. You just have to provide the switch to the console
server, as I recollect. I think it's the -mono argument to cons in your
boot/boot.lst file.

>Is there a freely available tool I can use to check memory on
>the DOS beast to see where it's putting the screen stuff? Also, can
>anyone suggest a book for finding out where DOS keeps such goodies
>as the screen map (assuming it's mapped, that is!).

I have my IBM-PC/XT hardware reference manual. Some newfangled weirdos have
an AT hardware reference manual, but it's multiple volumes, so clearly is
padded with "this page intentionally left blank" stuff. :-)

>I don't currently have any kind of compiler or assembler that will run on DOS,
> although
>I wouldn't mind getting Borland or something...

Unneeded. Hopefully you can add -mono and get up and running. Then you can
run the native compiler.

                                                Andy
Received on Mon Sep 26 10:55:34 1994